![]() The story also passes the Bechdel test very easily thanks to a number of conversations between Tegan and the female medic who is looking after her. There, it seems, Old Who still has rather an edge over some of the New Who stories. I was impressed to note the ethnic diversity of the staff of the prison ship, and better still the fact that the black guy amongst them, far from being the first to die, instead got to blow up two Daleks and repulse their attack on the ship in a prolonged and heroic fashion. with Satellite 5 (itself quite a large and varied set) and 42 with the space station - but even in both of those cases you get good looks at the Earth and the sun above which they are hanging as well.Īnyway, back to Resurrection. The only new stories I can think of where the only alien environment seen is the inside of a space vessel are The Long Game etc. But it usually fails to excite - and one of the real strengths of New Who that bigger budgets and better CGI effects have allowed them to leave this almost entirely behind. Obviously budgetary restrictions have always meant that alien worlds in Doctor Who have tended to be rather a) sterile and b) finite, and it's quite common for the production team to handle this by restricting the alien 'setting' entirely to the interior of one space-ship. I think that's actually quite telling in terms of what Who is trying to do, since whenever it was that I did see this, my imagination was clearly far more successfully engaged by a setting which was familiar, yet normally out of bounds and therefore mysterious, than it was by their attempt to create an entirely alien environment. I remembered the scenes set amongst the abandoned warehouses on Earth quite vividly, but had absolutely no recollection whatsoever of anything to do with the prison ship, the Dalek ship or Davros himself. I suspect the former, because my memories of it are very selective. This is one I've seen before, although I'm not quite sure whether it was as a child or later on. Otherwise, though, that is all I have to say about this story. I would gladly get into an aeroplane flown by him, even if the only training he'd ever had was from RADA rather than the RAF. And I would like to record my appreciation for the extreme pilotiness of the guy they cast as the Concorde pilot. One line of the Doctor's needs noting: "I've always found domination such an unattractive prospect." (So now we know!). And the extensive use of bubble-bath, plasticine and dry ice for the special effects did not impress – although I was amused at the point when the obviously-green-screened Heathrow airport turned out to be a literal in-story illusion. On discovering that the mysterious chanting Kalid was in fact the Master, my reaction, far from being "OMG he's the frickin' Master!, was more along the lines of "Oh, is that all". And indeed, for most of the first episode I was really excited.Īs the story developed, though, it all seemed to fall rather flat. It's the season finale, and clearly designed with great ambitions in mind. This story looks great on paper – Concorde, Heathrow, prehistoric Earth, the Master, Adric-death!angst, UNIT references and the (apparent) shock departure of Tegan at the end. Strange_complex Fifth Doctor: Time Flight
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